From owner-freebsd-net Sun Jun 27 13:36:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (unknown [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B6BD14DD7 for ; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 13:36:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (homer.softweyr.com [204.68.178.39]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA22034; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 14:36:12 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <37768B3B.6C997C1@softweyr.com> Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 14:36:11 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: spork Cc: Tetsuya Watanabe , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ADSL question after I searched mail archives and still have questions re DSL References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org spork wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > > > Tetsuya Watanabe wrote: > > > FreeBSD doesn't know about the ADSL, it just sees a router. Your "ADSL > > modem" is really an ethernet to ATM router, and should answer the DHCP > > request for you. Doesn't it? > > Probably not. I understand most of the cable modems work that way, but > even the one I've seen still then acts as a DHCP *server* to the PC. Precisely what I expected. > As > far as cheap-o ADSL services go, they usually give you a bridge (Westell, > Alcatel) which is a completely dumb piece of hardware that just bridges > every ethernet frame to the DSLAM and beyond. If that's the case, then > you need to listen to whatever some dhcp server behind the ISP's router is > handing out (the router is likely set up as a DHCP helper). Ugh. I'm only familiar with the USWest service, which uses the NetSpeed (now Cisco) router. Bridging your entire LAN onto the DSL line seems like a pessimal solution. > That's at least how they do it here in Bell Atlantic land... Another > thing to note is that somewhere along the line they may be filtering by > MAC address and they may have forgot to get that info from you. Here you > cannot do a thing until they've stuck your MAC address in the switch that > aggregates all the customers together... Duh. And I'll just bet their customer service people are polite and well-trained, right? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message